Weren't the Weasleys already superpowered though?
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It seems like just the four from their biographies. Ted, followed 2 years later by Graham, who was displaced as the youngest by the twins.
Is this character a superperson with some extraordinary ability? Probably all good.
Is this character a normalish person who uses some powerful artefacts or draws power from some external source to do cool things? Probably magic and not so good.
Is this character a normalish person who uses some powerful artefacts or draws power from some external source to do cool things? Probably magic and not so good.
Well done, then.
Did you win?
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The lifter is pulling, not expanding in-between the two.
Air pressure cannot pull, not even a vacuum can do that. It only pushes from an area of higher pressure from an area of lower pressure. Lessening pressure around the hands wouldn't loosen the grip if there was no air in between.
A better way might be to apply a strong breeze directed at the points where Mishka's fingers contact Graham's neck to prise them off. It might not be as strong as those other methods, but it is probably safer.
Please understand that I'm not trying to attack you with this, just trying to find a way for our story to follow established rules and be internally consistent with what characters can and cannot do.
I don't think the lifter should be flying in that analogy, even if it is air.
But forget cars for a second, and think of it this way:
Imagine you have a spring, like this:
This is pretty much what an area of higher air pressure looks like. It pushes outwards on the things that are holding it at either end - the things that are compressing it (the hands in the picture, or the neck and hands of characters in our story)
A compressed spring cannot push on one thing. It must exert force in both directions.
If the hand on the left were not there, would the spring still push on the right hand? No, it would expand leftwards until it reached its normal, uncompressed length (or atmospheric pressure for air). Similarly, you cannot compress a spring just by pushing on one end. You need to have something holding it on the other end, or else it just slides along.
You could also approach this through newton's third law of motion - forces come in pairs; for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In this case, the action is that Geoff's air is pushing on Mishka's hands. The reaction is that Mishka's hands push back on the air.
Now remember that the compressed air is a spring, attached to the hands at one end, and that a spring can only exert a force to push things apart when there are things at both ends to be pushed. What is at the other end of the spring? What is on the opposite side of the pressurised air from Mishka's hands? It is Graham's thin, flimsy and all-too-breakable neck.
Ouch.
If I were you, I'd try to find a different way to rescue our poor boy than prying off these super-strong hands while using his neck as a brace to push against. It can be done, I'm sure.
But forget cars for a second, and think of it this way:
Imagine you have a spring, like this:
This is pretty much what an area of higher air pressure looks like. It pushes outwards on the things that are holding it at either end - the things that are compressing it (the hands in the picture, or the neck and hands of characters in our story)
A compressed spring cannot push on one thing. It must exert force in both directions.
If the hand on the left were not there, would the spring still push on the right hand? No, it would expand leftwards until it reached its normal, uncompressed length (or atmospheric pressure for air). Similarly, you cannot compress a spring just by pushing on one end. You need to have something holding it on the other end, or else it just slides along.
You could also approach this through newton's third law of motion - forces come in pairs; for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In this case, the action is that Geoff's air is pushing on Mishka's hands. The reaction is that Mishka's hands push back on the air.
Now remember that the compressed air is a spring, attached to the hands at one end, and that a spring can only exert a force to push things apart when there are things at both ends to be pushed. What is at the other end of the spring? What is on the opposite side of the pressurised air from Mishka's hands? It is Graham's thin, flimsy and all-too-breakable neck.
Ouch.
If I were you, I'd try to find a different way to rescue our poor boy than prying off these super-strong hands while using his neck as a brace to push against. It can be done, I'm sure.
Who are ground, car and lifter in this analogy? I've lost track of how that relates to poor Graham.
Oh, well that's a relief. Page four of the IC is a bit too soon to begin my body count.
I think he's probably going to be OK.
After all, if the physics prof (accidentally) dropped a car on a student's neck without allowing any response, that definitely would be a god-modding auto-hit and would have to be changed (or given special GM dispensation to ignore physics for the moment in order for the game to to be derailed by an unexpectedly dark twist).
...right? Please? If I knew that my speaking up would cause death I would have kept my mouth shut and my science to myself.
After all, if the physics prof (accidentally) dropped a car on a student's neck without allowing any response, that definitely would be a god-modding auto-hit and would have to be changed (or given special GM dispensation to ignore physics for the moment in order for the game to to be derailed by an unexpectedly dark twist).
...right? Please? If I knew that my speaking up would cause death I would have kept my mouth shut and my science to myself.
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